White Geoffrey M. White

Memorializing Pearl Harbor (eBook, PDF)

Unfinished Histories and the Work of Remembrance

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Produktbeschreibung

Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II. Analyzing moments in which history is re-presented-in commemorative events, documentary films, museum design, and educational programming-Geoffrey M. White shows that the memorial to the Pearl Harbor bombing is not a fixed or singular institution. Rather, it has become a site in which many histories are performed, validated, and challenged. In addition to valorizing military service and sacrifice, the memorial has become a place where Japanese veterans have come to seek recognition and reconciliation, where Japanese Americans have sought to correct narratives of racial mistrust, and where Native Hawaiians have challenged their ongoing erasure from their own land. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork, White maps these struggles onto larger controversies about public history, museum practices, and national memory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374435
• Artikelnr.: 54672497

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey M. White is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i. He is the coeditor of Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s), also published by Duke University Press, and author of Identity through History: Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Memorializing History  1
1. Survivor Voices  35
2. Cultures of Commemoration  77
3. Memorial Film: Envisioning Race and Nation  129
4. Theming America at War  161
5. Making a New Museum  201
6. Pedagogy, Patriotism, and Paranoia  245
Conclusion. History's Future  265
Appendix 1. Pearl Harbor Bombing Statistics (December 7, 1941)  285
Appendix 2. Chronology of Hawaiian Political History, Postcontact  287
Appendix 3. Chronology of Internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese
Residents  289
Appendix 4. Very Brief Filmography of Pearl Harbor Official and Feature
Films  291
Notes  293
References  307
Index  319